Grey

Color coordinates

Hex triplet

#808080

sRGB^B (r, g, b)

(128, 128, 128)

CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)

(0, 0, 0, 50)

HSV (h, s, v)

(--°, 0%, 50%)

Source

HTML/CSS

B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Grey (British English) or gray (American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is a color "without color." It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead.

The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in AD 700.Grey is the dominant spelling in European and Commonwealth English, although gray remained in common usage in the UK until the second half of the 20th century.Gray has been the preferred American spelling since approximately 1825, although grey is an accepted variant.

In Europe and the United States, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with neutrality, conformity, boredom, uncertainty, old age, indifference, and modesty. Only one percent of respondents chose it as their favorite color.

Grey comes from the Middle English grai or grei, from the Anglo-Saxon graeg, and is related to the Dutch grauw and grijs and German grau. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in AD 700.

Fog in Venice

Blocks of lead shielding a radioactive sample

Column of volcanic ash from vent on Crater Peak, Mount Spurr

Gibeon meteorite

A grey wolf.

Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point wear grey.

Battleship grey or variations on this shade is the standard color for U.S. warships and those of many other navies, since it is less visible from a distance. The battleship pictured is the USS Missouri, built in 1944.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages, gray was the color of undyed wool, and thus was the color most commonly worn by peasants and the poor. It was also the color worn by monks of the Franciscan order, Cistercian Order and the Capucine Order as a symbol of their vows of humility and poverty. Franciscan monks in England and Scotland were commonly known as the Gray friars, and that name is now attached to many places in Great Britain.

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